Chris Van Hollen's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

Christopher Van Hollen Jr. ( van HOL-ən; born January 10, 1959) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017. The birth-card coordinate for January 10 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Senate seat.

The 4 of Spades coordinate

Chris Van Hollen's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about the Senate and not a verdict on Chris Van Hollen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.

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Chris Van Hollen in the public record

A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and as a Maryland state senator from 1995 to 2003. In 2007, Van Hollen became the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). In this post, he was responsible for leading efforts to defend vulnerable Democrats and get more Democrats elected to Congress in 2008, which led to a wave election for Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a new leadership post, Assistant to the Speaker, in 2006 so that Van Hollen could be present at all leadership meetings. He was elected ranking member on the Budget Committee on November 17, 2010. Pelosi appointed Van Hollen to the 12-member bipartisan Committee on Deficit Reduction with a mandate for finding major budget reductions by late 2011. On October 17, 2013, Pelosi appointed Van Hollen to serve on the bicameral conference committee. Van Hollen ran for the United States Senate in 2016 to replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Chris Van Hollen (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Chris Van Hollen, and not a forecast of a Senate seat.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Christopher Van Hollen Jr. ( van HOL-ən; born January 10, 1959) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: attorney.

Also on the record

1. He defeated U.S.
2. Representative Donna Edwards in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 61% of the vote to Republican nominee Kathy Szeliga's 36%.
3. He was reelected in 2022 with nearly 66% of the vote to Republican nominee Chris Chaffee's 34%.
4. Van Hollen chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) from 2017 to 2019.

Chris Van Hollen's coordinate at a glance

Seat

U.S. senator from Maryland (Class 3)

Party

Democratic

Date of birth

January 10, 1959

Month and day used

January 10 (year unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 10) = 43

Birth card

4 of Spades — The Rigid Truth

Sitting senators on this card

2 of 99 verified

Date agreement

Wikipedia list, Bioguide and Wikidata P569 all read 1959-01-10

Other sitting senators with this card

One other sitting senator shares the 4 of Spades with Chris Van Hollen — a different birthday that lands on the same calendar coordinate.

• Peter Welch — Vermont

FAQ

What is Chris Van Hollen's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. January 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Senate seat?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast elections, character, or fate.

Where do Chris Van Hollen's dates come from?

Birth date 1959-01-10 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States senators for the U.S. senator from Maryland (Class 3), matching Bioguide / congress.gov compiled birthday 1959-01-10 and Wikidata P569 1959-01-10 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The three sources match. Year-only dates and conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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